Found these points on the doctrine of Election and found them to bee deeply satisfying and fulfilling. What do you think?
--Election is corporate and concerns a holy people, a covenant community, and not primarily individuals.
--Election of the covenant community is accomplished through its connection to Christ via a sacramental and ecclesiological framework.
--Baptism is the means by which individuals enter the covenant community of the elect.
--Election of the covenant community entails God’s missionary efforts to redeem the remainder of humanity.
--The covenant community is an eschatological community which prefigures the age to come in the here and now.
--Election does not create a class of the elite but rather a class of servants.
--Any pre-creation acts of predestination, on the part of God toward his creatures, seems to entail his choice of a bride for his Son, and not of individuals into that bride.
--Foreknowledge seems to be the fore-loving of the covenant community rather than the fore-seeing of who would ultimately compose such a community.
--Salvation is dependent upon one’s continual perseverance in the body of Christ.
--Election is dependent on God’s faithfulness, and thus we have the best grounds upon which to make our calling and election sure.
